Marquis Mill Park

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient more frequently.

This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having all of the deficiency related data, it ended up being challenging to grade it in terms of this category.

Moving on to our last category, this facility was awarded a respectable long-term care score. Even though this was not nearly as strong as some of its other scores, this is really a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades are used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.